Environmental Sciences Quiz 254 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which part of the food chain only eats meat?

Correct Answer: B) A carnivore.

2. Select the statement that correctly identifies and describes the biome located nearest the equator.

Correct Answer: A) The rainforest receives high levels of precipitation and sunlight, so biodiversity is high.

3. Plant roots directly obtain water from

Correct Answer: B) Groundwater stored below the soil.

4. A Simpson's Diversity Index of 1 is (a)

Correct Answer: B) A high.

5. What is the definition of sustainability?

Correct Answer: C) Population continues indefinitely at the same standard of living.

6. Which wastes more energy?

Correct Answer: B) A less efficient machine.

7. Does what we do today to the environment affect those after us?

Correct Answer: B) YES.

8. What is AQI?

Correct Answer: A) Air quality index.

9. A place where an organism or group of organisms live and obtain food, air, water, shelter or space, or light needed to survive is called .....

Correct Answer: C) To habitat.

10. Which of the following were voluntary international agreements to reduce greenhouse gases?

Correct Answer: B) Kyoto Protocol & Paris Agreement.

11. Organisms acquire energy that is passed from one organism to another. This is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Food web.

12. A whale's niche would be which of the following?

Correct Answer: A) Eating plankton and krill.

13. A method for managing pollution in which a limit is placed on emissions and businesses or countries can buy and sell emissions allowances

Correct Answer: C) Cap and trade.

14. What type of natural resource can be replaced or replenished?

Correct Answer: D) Renewable resources.

15. In which situation are the atmosphere and biosphere interacting?

Correct Answer: D) Humans burn fossil fuels that pollute the atmosphere.

16. When an organism's body temperature rises and falls with the temperature of the air it is called:

Correct Answer: D) Ectotherm.

17. Study of how living things interact with each otherand with their nonliving environments

Correct Answer: A) Ecology.

18. The deepest parts of the Mariana Trench is ..... km below the surface of the Ocean.

Correct Answer: A) 11 km.

19. Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000

Correct Answer: A) RA 9003.

20. Which location is known for its clear skies and low light pollution, making it suitable for astronomical observatories?

Correct Answer: D) White Mountain.